Judge R. Wayne Smith told Cardwell by entering a plea of guilty, he was making a contractual wavier of his rights to a trial by jury and representation by an attorney. He is scheduled for sentencing March 11.
Possible sentencing is imprisonment for up to two years per count or a fine of no more than $1,000 or both for the six felony counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

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Worse is not filing at all. Don’t believe that a system that has been used as a way to put notorious gangsters behind bars is incapable of finding the little needle in the haystack — the average person who does not have taxes removed from their pay for the work they do.
The Internal Revenue Service is a mammoth organization watching over the execution of a Herculean task. They make a living on making sure we are making a living they can tax.

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There have been various attempts to paint this group as a bunch of right-wing extremists, Bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals, or “largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.” But when researchers focused on ordinary evangelicals, “they [found] more diversity, complexity and ambivalence than conventional wisdom would lead us to expect.”

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“When you’re struggling on offense, you had better play better on defense and rebound good and we did that tonight,” said Long, the third-year head coach at Tech. “I was pleased with our effort defensively and in rebounding and, really, our overall play.
“In the first half, we didn’t attack their half court trap well and we missed some shots, but I thought we did a better job in the second half.”

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